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23 Oct 2015
By Alastair StewartSouth America Correspondent CAIUA, Brazil (DTN) -- Brazil has the world's second-largest cattle herd spread sparsely across the country's vast interior. With few constraints on land, for decades when pasture degraded ranchers simply moved their cattle on to the next block of savannah or cut down a little more forest. But times h...
23 Oct 2015
By Elaine SheinDTN Associate Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- When DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist Joel Burgio first looked at the wind speed for Hurricane Patricia early Friday morning, he thought it was a mistake. It wasn't. "It's very powerful," Burgio said. With maximum sustained winds at 200 miles per hour and even higher gusts, it was setting a rec...
23 Oct 2015
By Elaine SheinDTN Associate Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- When DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist Joel Burgio first looked at the wind speed for Hurricane Patricia early Friday morning, he thought it was a mistake. It wasn't. "It's very powerful," Burgio said. With maximum sustained winds at 200 miles per hour and even higher gusts, it was setting a rec...
22 Oct 2015
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The House Transportation Committee marked up a six-year highway bill on Thursday, which includes provisions to extend the deadline for railroads to implement positive train control (PTC) technology. "We are very pleased that freight seems like it has more of a seat at the table than it has in other y...
22 Oct 2015
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent BEIJING (DTN) -- China's state reserve will buy corn from farmers for $8.06 per bushel, a 12% decline from last year's price of $9.17 per bushel. China will buy corn from Nov. 1, 2015, to April 30, 2016, according to the national Development and Reform Committee. "This is the first time the government lowered the...